Starting today you might notice something different in the comments of the blog. We’ve created a plugin for WordPress that allows our blog authors to reply directly to a comment and have that reply appear next to the original comment. This should minimize many of the “@username” responses in our comments.
Currently, this feature is only available to the blog authors (you’re used to seeing their responses in red). We’ve debated opening up the option to everybody (and we may still), however, the question we always ask is, “Are we trying to replicate too many forum functions?” The other fear is that threaded comments would turn into this:
As for you WordPress geeks out there, we plan on releasing this plugin along with one other very soon. More on that in a bit.
Nah don’t open it to the public, not a big feature and will cause many annoyances.
Thanks for adding this since I’m sure 90% of us just scroll through looking for Red comments to read and when we do find them it’s a bit of a work to go back to “@whoever” and find out what “@whoever” asked.
So thanks for this feature.
yea i could see that first thing happening a lot if you opened it to everyone, keep it to the authors and things will be fine
GREAT idea doing it the way you said, w/ only the forum poster (HOPEFULLY ANYONE at Sony actually) can respond to a post. If everyone could reply, your whole first page would be people responding to the first comment.
I would also like it if you could view only the RED replies from Sony, or tag them. With the new multi-page layout, insightful comments from David Jaffe were overlooked b/c they were buried down there on separate pages.
See that Jaffe post is a great example. If the post goes up while he\’s at lunch, for instance, we may already be into the second page of comments by the time he gets back.
And when it\’s someone like Dylan Cuthbert (in Japan), well he may be asleep when we actually push the post live. The goal is to get those Red Responses up close where more of you will see them.
Thanks for the feedback.